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On the recordJune 6, 2017
We are not getting mad at you as an individual. There is anger. There is frustration, and rightly so, because as a government, as an agency, we are failing these people.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

Editor's note · Context

Expressing frustration over government failures in providing services to Native peoples.

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